Sentences with phrase «early airmail»

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Early on, they plant questions in your mind: Can the airmail business meet its deadlines and make enough money to survive?

In the early days of flight, airmail pilots conducted dry runs or «pathfinder» flights to test the flying schedule, survey landing strips and facilities at intermediate airfields, and acquaint themselves with the full length of the route.

Also on display are Jasper Johns's Double - Flag, 1962; an early James Rosenquist, Untitled (Blue Sky), 1962; and Andy Warhol's Red Airmail Stamps, 1962.

First made in the early - 1960s, Kusama's soft sculptures adorned with phallic - like protuberances anticipate the work of Claes Oldenburg, while her use of wallpaper and collages incorporating elements such as airmail stickers would have a profound influence on Andy Warhol.

Once, postage was determined by the number of sheets within an envelope and not by weight — actually, I remember pre-stamped, blue, airmail letter «envelopes» that allowed for no enclosures and offered you only a single sheet to write on — and so the frugal took to cross-writing, i.e. turning the written - on page 90 degrees and simply writing across the earlier text.